Some say Texas is as close as there is to an Everything School. The men's tennis team just fed that narrative even more.
No. 1-ranked Texas Men's Tennis captured its second-straight SEC championship on Sunday, which not only puts the Longhorns into prime position to make a run to the NCAA's on the outdoor hard courts, but continues a school-wide dominance across all sports since entering the SEC almost two seasons ago.
For men's tennis, it's been a swift demolition of the conference. The Horns have won both the regular-season and conference tournament titles in each of their two seasons in the league.
And according to senior associate athletics director for communications, John Bianco, it's the fifth conference title of the 2025-26 academic year across all Texas sports. That is more than any other team.
Since the Longhorns were officially welcomed into the conference, they've won 13 SEC championships across all sports - the most in the league in the two-year span.
The other teams this year to have won SEC titles before men's tennis (regular-season and postseason) were women's basketball, men's swimming and men's diving.
"I'm really proud of that effort," said tennis head coach Bruce Berque. "I think any coach would be when your team shows resilience, character, toughness and determination. We showed all of those things today, down five first sets and almost six. We just kept hanging in there and finding a way.
"One thing that was nice is some of the guys who were winning this week weren't playing as well, and we had other guys step up, so it was nice to see us doing it different ways from different people. And I was really happy to see us play arguably our best doubles point of the season."
Senior Sebastian Gorzny, who won at No. 2 doubles alongside Lucas Marionneau, was named Tournament MVP.
For a program still finding its footing in a new conference, the Longhorns have wasted little time making themselves feel at home.
Texas men's tennis will now await its placement into the NCAA tournament, with the selection show scheduled for Monday, April 27 at 4 p.m. CT on NCAA.com.
They'll enter the national stage with even greater championship expectations ... something nearly every sport on the Forty Acres can relate to.
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